お手上げ・お手あげ|おてあげoteage[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounbeing done for; giving up; being in a hopeless situation; not knowing what to do; being brought to one's knees; throwing up (one's) hands
   火災かさいで全すべてのコンピューターディスクが駄目だめになってしまった時とき、会社かいしゃはもうお手上てあげの状況じょうきょうだった。↗

   The company faced a major interruption in business when a fire destroyed their archive of computer hard drives and optical discs.

• Synonym諦めあきらめNeutralNeutral word for giving up or resigning yourself, as in 「諦めが悪い」; it stresses the subjective decision to quit, not necessarily being cornered.
• Related観念かんねんNeutralIn the resignation sense, accepting the inevitable and bracing yourself, as in 「観念しろ」; it also commonly means an idea or notion.
• Related諦観ていかんWrittenWritten/formal prose: seeing through to the essence and accepting it with detachment; philosophical resignation, whereas 「お手上げ」 is being at a loss and having to concede.
• Related諦念ていねんWrittenWritten/formal prose: a state of mind that has grasped the truth, or simply the feeling of resignation; more abstract than 「お手上げ」 and not a picture of a predicament.

Out of options and forced to concede? That's 「お手上げ」, as in 「もうお手上げだ」. For giving up say 「諦め」, for accepting fate 「観念」, and for detached, philosophical acceptance in formal prose 「諦観」.

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1. どうしようもないこと。行き詰いきづまっていること。手ての施ほどこしようがないこと。降参こうさんすること。